Bluetooth scatternets: an enhanced adaptive scheduling scheme

Author

Baatz, Simon ; Frank, Matthias ; Kuhl, Carmen ; Martini, Peter ; Scholz, Christoph

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci. IV, Bonn Univ., Germany

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

782

Abstract

The vision of ad-hoc networking with Bluetooth includes the concept of devices participating in multiple "piconets" and thereby forming a "scatternet". However, the details of scatternet support for Bluetooth are not specified yet. This paper presents a scheme for Bluetooth scatternet operation that adapts to varying traffic patterns. Being based on sniff mode, it does not require substantial modification of the current Bluetooth specification and may thus be incorporated into currently available Bluetooth products. We present simulation results that confirm the applicability of our approach to realistic scenarios.

Keywords

Bluetooth; ad hoc networks; mobile computing; mobile radio; scheduling; telecommunication traffic; Bluetooth scatternets; ad-hoc network; enhanced adaptive scheduling; mobile devices; piconets; sniff mode; Adaptive scheduling; Bluetooth; Frequency conversion; Job shop scheduling; Master-slave; Mobile handsets; Personal area networks; Personal digital assistants; Space technology; Spread spectrum communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM 2002. Twenty-First Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings. IEEE

ISSN

0743-166X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7476-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.2002.1019324

Filename

1019324